The Hocking Hills is a beautiful Ohio State park area south of Columbus. When I was a child, my family visited the Hocking Hills, and as an adult, The Hocking Hills have become one of my favorite places to hike and spend weekends, especially with my family and my local church.

Last year, I wrote a piece of music after hiking to Cedar Falls in the Hocking Hills. “Cedar Falls” premiered with The Central Ohio Symphony at their holiday concerts, December 2016. At that time, we realized that there had never been an orchestral work based on something from the State of Ohio, and at the urging of the director of the orchestra, I decided to expand the piece into a suite of eight pieces, each representing specific locations within the park. The long-range plan is for entire piece to be performed live by the symphony, and perhaps on location in the Hocking Hills. Until then, I thought I would go ahead and release demo versions of these tunes, recorded with film scoring software, and make this music available to the State and to the Hocking Hills tourism groups.

If you are familiar with music I have written in the past, this work is perhaps a little different than what you might expect. The Hocking Hills Suite is designed to be somewhat dramatic and more like what I studied and wrote as a film scoring major at ULCA several years ago.